About the Authors

Shubhanshu Mishra

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL 61820, United States of America

Brent D. Fegley

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliations School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL 61820, United States of America, Illinois Informatics Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, United States of America

Jana Diesner

Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – original draft

Affiliation School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL 61820, United States of America

Vetle I. Torvik

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

vtorvik@illinois.edu

Affiliation School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL 61820, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: Vetle Torvik is a co-inventor of the Author-ity dataset, which is subject to licensing to third-parties (for non-academic or for-profit use) by the University of Illinois, which owns this intellectual property. However, the Author-ity dataset is provided free-of-charge for non-profit academic research. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.